Accidental Tech Podcast

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**Accidental Tech Podcast**

Three nerds discussing tech, Apple, programming, and loosely related matters.

Latest Episodes:

82: The Flash Storage Is Adequate Sep 11, 2014

Show notes

Follow-up:
- Marco and John get excited about a monitor
- Sexism epiphanies
- TiVo Mega
  - SnapStream
  - Kaleidescape Disc Vault
Macworld layoffs
- Jason Snell
iPhone 6/Apple Watch Event
- iPhone 6 & 6+
- Special guest appearance by Tiffany Arment
- Apple Watch

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81: You Left Your Money in a Bank Sep 05, 2014

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Follow-up:
- TiVo service charges and OTA channels
- Frayed Lightning Cables on Tumblr
- Google allegedly dropped out of buying Twitch
Anand Shimpi retires from AnandTech to work for Apple
- Anand's announcement
- Tom's Hardware Guide and the 1133 MHz Pentium III
Hackers steal photos from celebrities, apparently by phishing their iCloud accounts or answering security questions
Next week's Apple event
- Feld & Volk video of an assembled 4.7" iPhone 6
- Relative seating capacity of Apple event venues
Recent attacks of women in gaming
"Common Markdown", née "Standard Markdown"
- John Gruber's official Markdown
That word for when "I know that you know that I know…" and so on that John couldn't remember: Yomi

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80: Tangled in Version Numbers Aug 29, 2014

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Follow-up:
- iTunes on Windows uses Objective-C
- Lightning cables
  - Advice from Geniuses at the Apple Bar
  - When to ask for a replacement
  - Strain relief design
  - USB icon on the cable
- There's still a Mac with an optical drive
- CD-ROM nostalgia
- When will Apple let spinning hard drives die?
  - What size drives do iMacs use?
- Verizon "SpeedMatch"
Merlin Mann asks about the new TiVo Roamio OTA
Version Numbering
- The Infinite Version
- Do people care about pretty URLs.aspx?
Podcast Patent Troll
- Ars Technica
- Hypercritical #67
- Hypercritical #68
- Ars on Carolla Settling
- Adam Carolla discusses the case starting around 40 minutes
Marco's headphone review
Post-Show:
- John's review status
- Amazon buys Twitch
  - Twitch Plays Pokémon
  - Isometric
- Marco.☕️
- Bad.☕️
- Explanation of John's joke domain for The Flop House

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79: Tip Ring Ring Sleeve Aug 21, 2014

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Pre-show: Relay FM and Casey's new show about feelings
Follow-up:
- Rumored Lightning cable with reversible USB end, too
- Lightning cables breaking at the strain-delay cuff
- Cables' Springy Bits
  - TRRS connector
- Non-spammy Verizon DNS
- Console sales
- How do you pronounce "Haxe"?
Twitter continues to try to ruin itself
- Being a completionist versus following Glenn Fleishman
- Twitterrific with unified timelines and Tweetbot without
- Build an Acura in a tweet!
- App.net and Tent
iTunes 12
- Will iTunes ever get a complete rewrite or have functionality spun off into multiple apps?
- Photos in Yosemite
Post-show:
- Non-ideal times to decide whether to have another baby or write another OS X review
- How old is Stephen Hackett, really?
- Could you use an iOS device as a media-sync host for an iPod?
- Transferring large files over wireless (including Eye-Fi cards)

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78: Fleece the Whales Aug 15, 2014

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Pre-Show:
- Casey's New Podcast
Follow-Up:
- USB Type-C connector finalized
  - Peter Bright's comment
  - xkcd
- ARM Macs
- More on Jared Sinclair and the App Store economy
- TiVo Premiere UI update
  - TiVo ditches Flash
  - Haxe (həvər)
- Account-free Overcast
  - Jalkut theory on App Store review
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77: Full-Stack Businessperson Aug 08, 2014

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Casey wants to be the pre-show DJ
Follow-up:
- Mavericks, Gmail, and Mail.app
- Apple and IBM
- John's review status
  - Synergy
- Overcast status
  - Mixing server roles for burst capacity
  - nice
  - Weighing feedback
Macs with ARMs (in contrast to bubbles with feet)
Making money in the App Store
Post-show:
- Rube Goldberg Machine
- Casey's terrible fast-food preferences

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76: Not Suitable for Any Purpose Jul 30, 2014

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Follow-up on Overcast:
- Debug
- Downloads, accounts, conversions, server load
Pixar and Ed Catmull get involved in wage-fixing
Yosemite Public Beta
- IMAP
- VPN woes of the past
- Radar
- SuperDuper
- OS/2 Warp
After-show:
- Marco rents crazy headphones from The Cable Company
  - Marco's original post
  - HE-6 headphones (the crazy way that planar-magnetic drivers work)
  - The massive EF-6 amp and its crazy audiophile volume knob (top center) — it's a stepped attenuator, since common potentiometers are considered inferior.
  - XLR plugs and balanced audio
  - Casey still loves in-ear monitors (probably while listening to vinyl), but many experts in both prefer headphones.
- Casey surprises Marco and John by playing Journey
  - Casey drops hints on Twitter days before and John picks up on it
  - PlayStation Store Credit on Amazon
  - Journey Soundtrack on Amazon and iTunes
  - Monument Valley
  - John's blog post
  - Tiff plays Journey
  - The Incomparable on Journey
  - Inception

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75: You Had Your Moment Jul 24, 2014

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Pre-Show: John visits Six Flags
Follow-up:
- Overcast week one update
  - Server side vs. local feed crawling
  - XML wonkiness
    - XPath
    - XSLT
  - UI Changes in 1.0.1
    - What should the rewind and fast-forward buttons do in a podcast app?
    - Episode 1 of the Debug Epic with Nitin Ganatra
    - More on priority podcasts
- Sapphire iPhone 6
Apple & IBM Partner in the Enterprise
Post-show:
- Keeping devices & sceens pristine
  - Mac SE/30
  - Mac Plus
- Used cars, kids, dings, and knicks
  - Bra Phase
- John criticizes recent showbot changes
- TV Talk
  - Which Mike Judge creations are funnier than others
  - Halt and Catch Fire
  - Silicon Valley
  - Veep

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74: One Of Us Shipped Something Jul 18, 2014

Show notes

Follow-up:
- Showbot status and pull requests
- Older phones still being bought today, like the iPhone 4S
  - Long-term device limitations and upgradeability, RAM, spinning disks, and Mac/iOS purchasing strategies
  - Vindictive but self-defeating defections
- Screen size, small hands, and pants/trousers/jeans/khakis/whatevertheyrecalled.
  - Silver Screen Queens Podcast
  - CGP Grey
- 4K Plasma TVs, as pointed out by Awax, which lists for $500K
Overcast has shipped!
- Planning for server load and timing a release in the App Store
- Why require user accounts, and why not iCloud?
- Why freemium?
- What took so long? Why no streaming? Why does that even matter?
- IRL Talk
- RSSRadio
- ARM SIMD Extensions
- AltiVec
- Features users will hopefully appreciate
- Linking to other independent podcast apps
  - Some serious dedication on Hacker News
  - Posted after we recorded: Castro's response
- Podcast directory design motivations
Possible web-hosting on an A7-based Apple TV like at Mac Mini Vault
After-show:
- John gets Hypercritical about Overcast
- Electric Shadow
- Back to Work

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73: Notifications Duck Jul 10, 2014

Show notes

Follow-up:
- Why would someone switch from iOS to Android? Is it because of software updates?
- RAW editing in iPhoto
- Alarm fatigue and how it relates to notifications on our phones
- More on health monitoring by Ben Griffel
- Control Plane
- The death of plasma
  - The challenges of making a 4K plasma TV
  - Are 4K TVs worth it?
  - Crutchfield
  - Netflix Shows 4K
Leaked "iPhone 6" "Sapphire" Display Video
Post-show:
- Overcast and Content Security Policy
  - Github rolled out CSP
- Firefox memories
- Rescue Time
- THE SHOWBOT SURVIVED!
- Quick Neutral

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